Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive,…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke